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  • Written by: Jenny Lawson
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  • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (195 ratings)

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Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

Written by: Jenny Lawson
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"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel.... Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." (AudioFile magazine, Earphones Award winner)

From the number one New York Times best-selling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable audiobook filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.

*This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus chapter*

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.

With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor - the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball - is present throughout.

A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.  

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Jenny Lawson (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

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Best. Book. EVER.

If you only read one book this year, make it this one. It will make you feel less alone in a time that has isolated us all, it will make you feel like you can keep going in a year when everyone has lost so much, and it will make you laugh, which we all really need right now. Jenny Lawson is a treasure.

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Made me laugh and cry in equal amounts

This book is perfection. Jenny, as always, is funny, witty, raunchy, and entirely Jenny. This book has helped me more than she will ever know and I am so grateful to her openness.

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This is one of the best books I have listen to this year

10/10

This book will make you laugh and remind you it’s ok screwup

Thank you Jenny Lawson for being you

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I feel bad that I didnt like it

I just want to say shes a really cool lady and its super cool the way she talks about mental health. I like how she talks about how our stories go on after we pass and there little pieces of us left behind. However I found the book really quite annoying and exhausting. I know shes got a specific sense of humor but the jokes felt incredibly overused. I couldnt finish it. I used to really enjoy reading her blog and like reading furiously happens a teenager but I think maybe I just outgrew this particular type of humour.

But I am so happy for her and her success and if she writes another book in the future maybe I'll read it but I dont think the audiobook was for me.

p.s. her chicken joke theory simply isnt right, it is a form of anit-humour nothing to do with chicken suicide.

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It has it all

I laughed, I cried, I cry-laughed from laughing so hard. Jenny Lawson continues to make us laugh about things that shouldn't be funny (but are) and raw and honest about all the things that aren't. She is a precious national treasure on a good day, and medicine for the heart in these hard times. She knocked this one out of the park for me. Also, the Authour's Note at the end was a really nice touch. Five stars for Jenny Lawson, always.

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awesome book but

maybe dont give advice on pelvic floor theraphy aka(misinformation).. especially when it's really important for your bodys healing process after having a baby

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Skillful balancing of hilarity and heartbreak

Listening to Jenny (as opposed to reading, which is fun too) makes for the most intimate experience. Sometimes she is brash, sometimes she is shocking, and sometimes she is sensitive and gentle, sharing openly her struggles. All i can say is that i didn’t want it to end, and when it did, i was heartbroken. Despite having read her previous books, now i just want to listen to them all over again to get more of this.

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Laughed out loud!

Not only is Jenny Lawson, speaking to all of us introverts but her wordplay is nothing short of genius. Thank you Jenny.

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love it

laugh - cry - laugh till you cry - repeat
The poignant mixed artfully with hilarity is exactly what my soul needed.

Also, I listened to the chapter about the rat while snowshoeing and got stuck in snowbanks repeatedly due to uncontrollable laughter. You can take that as a warning or a recommendation, depending on your tastes.

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Oh Jenny!

This book made me laugh my arse off and cry my eyes out and everything in-between! Keep writing!!!

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